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Simulation and Learning

A Model-Centered Approach

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Franco Landriscina

    1. , Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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  • Emphasizes the connection between simulation and mental process

  • Provides in-depth analysis of the relationships between simulation and mental models

  • Demonstrates ways that simulation can be used support conceptual change

  • Connects simulation with embodied cognition and the extended mind hypothesis

  • Provides concrete examples and guidelines for designing instructionally effective simulations

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. An Introduction to Simulation for Learning

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 1-12

  3. Simulation and Cognition

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 13-29

  4. Models Everywhere

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 31-46

  5. Simulation Modeling

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 47-98

  6. Simulation-Based Learning

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 99-146

  7. Simulations for Thinking

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 147-174

  8. Simulation-Based Instruction

    • Franco Landriscina
    Pages 175-209

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 211-236
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The main idea of this book is that to comprehend the instructional potential of simulation and to design effective simulation-based learning environments, one has to consider both what happens inside the computer and inside the students' minds. The framework adopted to do this is model-centered learning, in which simulation is seen as particularly effective when learning requires a restructuring of the individual mental models of the students, as in conceptual change. Mental models are by themeselves simulations, and thus simulation models can extend our biological capacity to carry out simulative reasoning. For this reason, recent approaches in cognitive science like embodied cognition and the extended mind hypothesis are also considered in the book.. A conceptual model called the “epistemic simulation cycle” is proposed as a blueprint for the comprehension of the cognitive activies involved in simulation-based learning and for instructional design.

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  • , Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Franco Landriscina

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